trigger new build when creating a new tag in SVN

[yuki]

Hi,

 I got Jenkins installed to build periodically against a project in SVN (using polling). I like in addition to that Job that is is correctly working, to have another job that would trigger only when I add a new tag to the project in the SVN, and have it do do this things:

1) build the project

2) zip the project and copy it to a backup drive.

I figured out I could write a .bat script to the zipping, moving part. But i cannot figure out to make the process happen automatically when the project gets a new tag. How can this be achieved? How can I configure Jenkins to the detect that a new tag has been added to the repository and make it act in consequence?

Thanks

[Alex Domoradov]

Have you tried Included Regions field?

If set, and Jenkins is set to poll for changes, Jenkins will ignore any files and/or folders that are not in this list when determining if a build needs to be triggered.

Each inclusion uses regular expression pattern matching, and must be separated by a new line.

This is useful when you need to check out an entire resource for building, but only want to do the build when a subset has changed.

	/trunk/myapp/c/library1/.*
	/trunk/myapp/c/library2/.*
  

If /trunk/myapp is checked out, the build will only occur when there are changes to either the c/library1 and c/library2 subtrees.

[yuki]

Hi, 
thanks for your answer. I'll try playing with the included regions. 

Since I want to build only when a new Tag is created, and the folder for the tag in question will not exist when I do the configuring I guess I 'll have to watch for changes in the tags root folder, right?

If my svn is https://svn.mydomain.com/repos/projects/myproject/trunk  I guess I 'll have to try using https://svn.mydomain.com/repos/projects/myproject/tags as included region.